Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
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… If you look at the book of Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter 22, verse 10, the Bible says this, do not plow with an ox and the donkey yoked together. I wonder, I mean, that's kind of unique that the Bible would say that. But the more I studied it, here's what I discovered. an ox was considered a clean animal to the Jews. A donkey was considered an unclean animal. A donkey, if it was hooked up to an ox, if it was unequally yoked, both the donkey and the ox would experience great pain because the yoke is not gonna work on top of that. they're not gonna plow in a straight line. Okay, I get that. As I got deeper, I found out donkeys eat poisonous grass. And if you unequally yoke a donkey with an ox, the donkey's halitosis, bad breath, can make the ox sick. And in some cases, the ox would die. So if you, my friend, merge with the wrong person, watch out for that helitosis. …
… literally other yoke with unbelievers? What partnership can righteousness really have with lawlessness? Real quick, this is an allusion from the Old Testament. In Deuteronomy 22.10, God's law, his holy law forbids the yoking of an ox and a donkey together. There's a double yoke up here. You put two animals in there and they pull together. Two openings. You were not allowed, according to God's holy law, to put an ox in one of those yoke and a donkey in the other one. Now, that was really practical instruction. Because an ox and a donkey pull in such different ways that it would really frustrate both animals and it would make a mess of the field. But still, I mean, that's practical. But that seems like a pretty odd thing for God to include in his holy law, right? Worship no other gods, thou shalt not murder. No adultery, don't have an ox and donkey plow together. Like, why would God care about that, right? That's a great question. …
… Do not be bound together with unbelievers. That really is a prohibition based on Deuteronomy 22.10, which says, "'You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.'" Only somebody who grew up in the city would try that. You can't plow with a donkey and an ox on the same yoke. That is exactly the vivid picture that you're intended to see when you think of making any kind of alliance with the kingdom of darkness. Back in Jeremiah, chapter 2, as Jeremiah speaks for God, you can pick it up in verse 4, Jeremiah 2, 4, "'Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel. Thus says the Lord, What injustice did your fathers find in Me, that they went far from Me? Why did you leave Me, and walked after emptiness, and became empty?' They didn't say, where is the Lord who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through the land of deserts and of pits, and a land of drought and deep darkness, through a land that no one crossed where no man dwelt. …